Metro can reveal the man who delighted Diamond Jubilee crowds on the Mall by wearing a Where’s Wally costume is a German student who ‘did it for fun and to prove that Germans have a sense of humour as well’.

Where’s Wally: Sebastian Freund in his get-up

Sebastian Freund, 23, contacted Metro.co.uk after we named him in our top ten moments of the final day of celebrations marking the Queen’s 60-year reign.

Several eagle-eyed TV viewers spotted the history student in the crowd outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday dressed as a real-life version of the popular children’s book character.

Sebastian told Metro.co.uk being named in the top ten was the ‘best thing to happen to me over the Jubilee’ – apart from seeing the Queen.

He explained that there was no specific reason for dressing up as Where’s Wally, although the red, white and blue colours of his outfit seemed very apt amid Union Flags.

But the history student, from Augsburg, close to Munich, said he was inspired by the feel-good mood the country enjoyed over the Diamond Jubilee weekend.

‘When I went jogging on Sunday I smelled a lot of barbecues and I saw a lot of parties. I only saw this once before during the World Cup in Germany in 2006. The whole country was in “party-mode”. It was awesome to have that feeling again,’ Sebastian said.

He continued: ‘On Tuesday, when I was actually in London, the crowd itself was the star, apart from the Queen, of course. Everyone at the event had the perfect mood and there were so many nationalities celebrating the Queen. Where I stood we had people from Jamaica, the US, Germany, Britain, Norway, Australia, France, Japan and Italy and everyone had a wonderful time.’

Not even the weather could deter Sebastian, who added: ‘When the marching band played the James Bond theme and it started to rain I said to the others “How much more British can it get?”.’

Sebastian, who is in the UK as a foreign language assistant at a school in Surrey to teach German and improve his English, said that he was looking forward to a British ‘counter-strike’ at the next big event in Germany.